CVE-2024-40928 Affecting kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_10_5-rt package, versions <1-150600.1.5.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELLIVEPATCH640150600105RT-7725100
  • published21 Aug 2024
  • disclosed20 Aug 2024

Introduced: 20 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-40928  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_10_5-rt to version 1-150600.1.5.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_10_5-rt package and not the kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_10_5-rt package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ethtool: fix the error condition in ethtool_get_phy_stats_ethtool()

Clang static checker (scan-build) warning: net/ethtool/ioctl.c:line 2233, column 2 Called function pointer is null (null dereference).

Return '-EOPNOTSUPP' when 'ops->get_ethtool_phy_stats' is NULL to fix this typo error.

CVSS Scores

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